numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6798 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin
| Message 1 of 6 20 April 2015 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
Hi all,
I was wondering if you could recommend some decent books available in some of the Italian
dialects. I just finished reading an Andrea Camilleri novel in Sicilian.
Strictly speaking a kind of Italianized Sicilian so as to be comprehensible to a wide Italian
public, but still. It was great fun.
I'm wondering if there are novels that people know about in some of the other dialects, I'd
love to check them out..
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Itikar Groupie Italy Joined 4684 days ago 94 posts - 158 votes Speaks: Italian*
| Message 2 of 6 21 April 2015 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
Try "Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana" a thriller in Romanesque written by Carlo Emilio Gadda.
If you like Ladin there are also some novels published in that language (various dialects), but I don't know any title. I'd check also Sardinian:
http://www.sardegnacultura.it/j/v/258?s=20315&v=2&c=2697&t=7
Check in town libraries the "local" sections, they usually have a copy of the books of the authors who have written in the local vernacular, even if they are now out of print.
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Zetko86 Heptaglot Newbie Italy Joined 4524 days ago 18 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Slovenian, Italian*, English, Serbo-Croatian, FrenchB1, GermanB2, Russian Studies: Japanese, Hungarian
| Message 3 of 6 29 April 2015 at 3:14pm | IP Logged |
Check this Wikipedia article (in Italian).
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldobrie
It's a series of books by L. Carpinteri and M. Faraguna written in the dialect of Trieste (a variation of the Venetian dialect).
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6454 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 4 of 6 05 May 2015 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
"A Brüsinpiàn gariva ul suu: Una storia d'Alzheimer" was ok, if you want a very Northern dialect.
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lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4289 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish
| Message 5 of 6 06 May 2015 at 10:03am | IP Logged |
If you like poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini has written several collections of poems in Friulian.
Wikipedia
Samples
Other samples
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flabbergasted Triglot Groupie Latvia Joined 6371 days ago 75 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Latvian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Persian
| Message 6 of 6 29 July 2015 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
Stefano D'Arrigo uses Sicilian in his novel Horcynus Orca.
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